Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank - (12 June, 1929 – early March 1945)

was a Jewish girl born in the city of Frankfurt am Main in Weimar

Germany. She gained international fame posthumously following the
publication of her diary which documents her experiences hiding during
the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II.

Anne and her family moved to Amsterdam in 1933 after the Nazis gained
power in Germany, and were trapped by the occupation of the
Netherlands, which began in 1940. As persecutions against the Jewish
population increased, the family went into hiding in July 1942 in hidden
rooms in her father Otto Frank's office building. After two years, the
group was betrayed and transported to concentration camps. Seven
months after her arrest, Anne Frank died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen
concentration camp, within days of the death of her sister, Margot Frank.
Her father Otto, the only survivor of the group, returned to Amsterdam
after the war to find that her diary had been saved, and his efforts led to
its publication in 1947. It was translated from its original Dutch and first
published in English in 1952 as The Diary of a Young Girl.

The diary, which was given to Anne on her 13th birthday, chronicles her
life from June 12, 1942 until August 1, 1944. It has been translated into
many languages, has become one of the world's most widely read books,
and has been the basis for several plays and films. Anne Frank has been
acknowledged for the quality of her writing, and has become one of the
most renowned and most discussed victims of the Holocaust.